Today I have been taking loads and loads of photos! The purpose of these is to have photos to accompany my reviews of various items of clothing from my favourite vintage style reproduction shops. I've written a fairly long post about my decision to do this but haven't posted it as I'm still in the process of editing it, however the first clothing review is up!

I'm certainly no model and the situation I have for photography is less than ideal - all the lights in my house are energy saving or led so kind of yellow in hue, my camera is getting very old and temperamental as is the tripod, and my hallway is the only free space to do it in - complete with hideous brown carpet... When the weather improves I might venture outside but for now the hallway is it! Also if the project goes on I'll look at better camera and such.

I looked up some poses online and tried out some moves but I am a total amateur! Which is fine because this is just a personal blog for fun. (I have a day job people so step off from any critiques - there really is no need). I'm definitely a smiley/silly pin up and can not for the life of me pull off serious or sultry faces without looking like I'm sucking a lemon, however myself & Rockin' Roy agree that silly is it's own kind sexy so we're cool. I have an excellent face for comedy reactions would describe my shape as mobile 'stack of curves' but the reviews aim to talk about how good the clothes are for living in, not just looking pretty in. I find it tough to like any photo I'm in so a little part of this is learning to get over that and enjoy my appearance a bit more. My body is awesome for carting my thoughts about and communicating them, hugging loved ones, dancing to my favourite music and transporting me around the world - the way it looks is the least of it's values but it's the bit that we all get wound up about. So, let's not do that, let's just enjoy stuff!

Taking pictures is exhausting! Rockin' Roy was my assistant and we spent about 3 or 4 hours on this project covering about a dozen dresses. I was surprised how shattered I was just getting changed a lot. Posing also wears you out. Phew! Real models make it look easy but they are working damn hard.

I've put the clothing reviews on a separate page as the main blog will continue to focus on the usual Glasgow related chat - gigs, restaurants, interesting places, travel, crafts and so on.